What is AIS 129:
Automotive Industry Standard-129 is a rule applicable to M, N and L vehicle categories produced or imported to India for sale in India and type approved as per Central Motor Vehicles (CMV) Rule 126.
AIS-129 has two parts as mentioned below.
PART–1 : Collection and dismantling of End-of-life vehicle, PART-2 A : Heavy Metal restriction, dismantling information,
PART-2 B : Type Approval of vehicle with regard to their Reusability and Recoverability (RRR)
How to comply with AIS-129:
- Providing end to end support in comply to AIS-129.
- Registration of company in International Material Data System (IMDS) system.
- Creating MDS ( Material Data Sheet)
- Validating the MDS submitted by clients supplier.
- Creating main assemblies MDS in IMDS system.
- Submitting created MDS to customers according to their specifications.
- Creating a report for the submitted parts.
- Re-submission of rejected MDS to customer if any.
- Creating RRR Calculation for vehicles as per ISO-22628 standard.
Type approval for AIS-129:
For Vehicle Type approval OEM’s (Original Equipment Manufacturer) has to collect the
- Material data from their respective supply chain.
- Calculate the (Recyclability & Recoverability) RRR as per ISO 22628.
- Tracking of HMR (Heavy Metal Restrictions) for the product they procure from suppliers.
- Providing compliance declaration for the product manufactured or imported in India.
